Cover Art by Mr. Amorn Setthitorn

Reviews

“Wolf’s Path is a remarkable new entry from Joyce Chng demonstrating why she’s one of the most ambitious and engaging SFF writers today. It’s an excellent introduction to her work that’s sure to delight you with its evocative prose and compelling ideas long after you’ve put it down!”
—Bryan Thao Worra, author of American Laodyssey

“Joyce Chng’s Wolf’s Path is a journey. A trek not merely through the author’s chronological career trajectory but across time, space, and genre. From piratical adventures on the high seas to worlds destroyed by climate change and resurrected through sheer will, from prose to poetry to autobiography, this lyrical collection is a celebration of the queer, the primal, and the sensory. Chng is a masterful storyteller, weaving together the rich cultural tapestry of Singapore with literary prose and fresh interrogations of genre fiction. Wolf’s Path is a howl of triumph.”
—Rachel A.Rosen, author of Cascade

“Wolf’s Path is an intricately exciting collection of speculative stories, poetry, and personal essays that flow together with an undercurrent of warmth and thoughtfulness. Joyce wonderfully creates stories that expand and question perspectives, with characters that can be as sharp as claws and soft as paw pads. They have a way of embedding the fury of injustices within plotlines so that something kinder can grow in their characters. Each story leaves us with catalysts for reflection, growth, and hope. Highly recommended for those who enjoy memorable, speculative stories that are robustly imaginative and edged with a quiet (sometimes feisty!) intensity.
—Dhiyanah Hassan, artist

“Whether it’s examining fantastical pasts, apocalyptic futures, or the SFnal world we call reality, Wolf’s Path is a fascinating exploration of how others use our differences against us, and how our differences ultimately help us find our place in the world. Chng excels at creating unique, relatable characters who will pull you in and stories that will change your perspective. Highly recommended, especially for those who feel they’re stuck between worlds—real or imagined.
—Stewart C Baker, author of The Butterfly Disjunct

“A collection to mark Chng’s turning 50 this year, this is a collection that embraces the changing nature of the writer over their career: from their earliest published work, through to very recent pieces, showing the consistent themes that Chng keeps coming back to. In particular, questions of what life can and might be like during war pop up several times; and explorations of gender, ethnicity, and identity broadly defined are a consistent presence. And Chng’s experience as a Singaporean is also fundamental to their stories, with many of the stories taking place in either a real or imagined Southeast Asia. It’s brilliant that Atthis Arts is publishing this retrospective collection. Too often white men get collected early in their careers and everyone else just… doesn’t. Chng’s voice is an example of one that should be highlighted and celebrated.”
—Alexandra Pierce, editor of Speculative Insight

“Wolf’s Path is full to the brim with beautifully written stories from the wonderfully imaginative mind of Joyce Chng.”
—Rohan O’Duill, author of the Cold Rush series

“You should deffo pick up a copy. The themes are bold and poignant, and the stories take you so well through a path of discovery. It’s wicked.”
—Dr. Emma Burnett, multi-published short fiction writer

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Sixteen brand-new tales from guests of the 2024 Gen Con Writers’ Symposium take you on a journey spanning the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and slipstream.

Featuring all-new short fiction from:

2024 Special Guest Linda D. Addison, Jennifer Brozek and Raven Oak, Richard Lee Byers, Brandon Crilly, Richard Dansky, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Sarah Hans, Gabrielle Harbowy, Akis Linardos, Karen Menzel, Daniel Myers, Cat Rambo, Jason Sanford, LaShawn M. Wanak, Gregory A. Wilson, Bryan Young

Cover art by Alex Steffan.

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This collection gathers 30 short stories from writers living in wartime Ukraine, their work translated into English for the very first time, as well as from international authors of Ukrainian heritage. Come, now, and experience the magic, the terror, and the wonder-filled surprises of the worlds they’ve brought to life.

Cover illustration by Taras Kopansky.

Media

Review by Nicole Yurcaba, Chytomo

Accolades

Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Collection

Reviews

“Bold and brave, its stories are a testament to the role of storytelling and remembering in Ukrainian culture. More so, Embroidered Worlds is a reminder to the world that Ukrainians do, and always will, exist.” – Nicole Yurcaba, Chytomo

“An amazing collection of short stories from the best Ukrainian sci fi and fantasy authors, made even more poignant because of the current war. The stories are very different and still heartbreakingly lovely, and the introduction is very helpful in telling the reader more about the authors and their own histories. Excellent book that I hope will be more popular with the Western readers.” – Rina Iosad, Book Reviewer

Places where you can help Ukrainians in need

And a message from translator Hanna Leliv: 2 January 2024

No donation is too small.

• Chytomo magazine is the largest independent media covering publishing and contemporary literary and cultural processes in Ukraine. https://chytomo.com/en
• The Hospitallers is a volunteer organization of paramedics who assist those who need immediate treatment, directly on the front line. https://www.hospitallers.life/
• Dobrobat is a volunteer construction battalion that assists the survivors in de-occupied territories in the urgent restoration of housing and social infrastructure. http://dobrobat.in.ua
• Unite with Ukraine is using funds raised to supply items such as medical and protective equipment to the front line. https://unitewithukraine.co
• UA Animals actively helps animals within war zones: evacuate, provide feed and medicines for shelters. https://uanimals.org/en
• Razom funds projects that are designed to have immediate manifestations of impact, with a focus on the needs on the ground to support Ukraine and on opportunities to amplify voices from Ukraine. https://www.razomforukraine.org
• The Leleka Foundation focuses on first aid, evacuation, and definitive care of war casualties in Ukraine by funding front-line medical professionals. https://www.leleka.care/donate
• Dignitas seeks to empower the Ukrainian people by providing essential humanitarian supplies, technology, training initiatives, and expert guidance. https://dignitas.fund

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Featuring

Cover illustration by Mia Carnevale.

Media

Rosalind’s Siblings on the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List

Accolades

Finalist – 2024 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ+ Anthology

Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Collection

Reviews

“Featuring stories and poems, the anthology challenges, confronts, and comforts all at once, featuring a range of characters facing intense and complex situations involving research, exploration, and discovery. It’s a wonderful reading experience!” — Charles Payseur, series editor of We’re Here: The Year’s Best Queer Speculative Fiction

“The anthology contains several excellent works. I enjoyed this a lot, not in the least because it introduced me to several new writers. Recommended!” — Kelly Jennings, Azimov’s Science Fiction

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Selected – Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, edited by Stephen Kotowych for “Shattered” by Marie Bilodeau

To heal. to mourn. to redeem. to live.

Rogue Artists presents seventeen speculative fiction stories of art used for change, in celebration of the 2022 Origins Game Fair, themed: The Art of Games. This trade edition has a different cover, size, and format than the limited Game Fair edition, and we are pleased to offer these amazing stories to global spec-fic audiences.

Featuring

Cover Art by Charles Urbach

Reviews:

“The careful curation of these works walks us through a fascinating gallery of the human heart and soul. Many types are art are explored in these works: the art of tattoo, sketch work, and stage. The art of song, and the art of paint. Even the art of gallery curation. Some tales between these pages will enchant you. Some will make you shiver and move on quickly. Some will comfort disturbed souls…and some will disturb comfortable egos. What I can promise you is that each story hung in this gallery has the power to move you.” – Author O.E. Tearmann

“In this anthology, seventeen writers employ the art of storytelling to explore visual and performing arts, across a wide range of perspectives and speculative sub-genres. The various combinations succeed in ways I could not have predicted. For example, while fantastical mystery is not my usual reading choice and improv not even the sort of theatre I prefer, C.S.E. Cooney’s “Catharsis” haunted me to the point that I sought out (and loved!) some of her other writings. Cat Rambo I’d admired for a while, but “Art Holds Our Broken Hearts Together” gave me the story of space refugees that I didn’t know I needed. Finally, E.D.E. Bell’s “Grace, who sings” brought my younger self’s fascination with empaths and healers forward to a more mature (and elegant) take on individual’s roles and responsibilities to others.” – Author Clara Ward

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As Told by Things

Ordinary objects. Extraordinary tales.

As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object. Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart.

What objects do you think have stories to tell?

Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove

A legendary hotel. Five minutes at a time.

Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove is an eclectic collection of short stories and flash fiction.

Whether there’s an incident at the front desk, something not quite right with the room, a bear stopping in for a beer, or a resolute robot revolt, lives change by the minute within the grounds, rooms, and corridors of the legendary Hotel Stormcove. Lovers meet, witches gather, friends connect, and those in need always find shelter.

See you at the reception desk?

Community of Magic Pens

An eclectic, multi-genre collection of original stories about the power of communication, the magic of writing instruments, and the strength of community, curated to inspire wonder, hope, and joy.

Eclectic, imaginative, and unexpected, Community of Magic Pens features forty genre-spanning flash and short stories—including fantasy, humor, science fiction, romance, historical fiction, satire, and mystery—bringing together a rich group of diverse voices from a wide range of backgrounds and intersections.

Fountain pens, markers and ink, charcoals, spy pens, a braille writer, a printing press, virtual reality, and a supernatural pizza: whether revealing unspoken truths, fighting injustice, or finding friendship and love, our pens have power. Join us as a recent graduate of superhero school struggles to understand her gift, a disabled android interviews for a job, a queen’s conscripted artist must pull reality from illustrations on parchment, and a grandmother’s secret room is…better kept a secret. Tales of struggle and triumph, compassion and hope: Community of Magic Pens is a celebration of our shared story.

What will you see written when the pens speak?

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Eclectic, imaginative, and unexpected, Community of Magic Pens features forty genre-spanning flash and short stories—including fantasy, humor, science fiction, romance, historical fiction, satire, and mystery—bringing together a rich group of diverse voices from a wide range of backgrounds and intersections.

Fountain pens, markers and ink, charcoals, spy pens, a braille writer, a printing press, virtual reality, and a supernatural pizza: whether revealing unspoken truths, fighting injustice, or finding friendship and love, our pens have power. Join us as a recent graduate of superhero school struggles to understand her gift, a disabled android interviews for a job, a queen’s conscripted artist must pull reality from illustrations on parchment, and a grandmother’s secret room is…better kept a secret. Tales of struggle and triumph, compassion and hope: Community of Magic Pens is a celebration of our shared story.

What will you see written when the pens speak?

Community of Magic Pens features all-new work from:

Z. Ahmad, J. S. Bailey, E.D.E. Bell, Gustavo Bondoni, Kella Campbell, Minerva Cerridwen, ZZ Claybourne, M. R. DeLuca, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Joy Givens, Beth Goder, Ethan Hedman, Andrew K Hoe, Victoria Hollis, A. P. Howell, Stella B. James, M. Kaur, Ava Kelly, Robert Kingett, Adam Kissel, N.R. Lambert, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, Gerri Leen, Lawrence Miller, Avery Montavon, Ether Nepenthes, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Mikko Rauhala, Rai Rocca, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Lorraine Schein, Holly Schofield, Elizabeth Shaffer, Jannae’ Sifontes, K. Alysee Simon, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Vijay Varman, Dawn Vogel

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Cover Description, For the Visually Impaired

Cover Jacket Description:

The entire cover jacket is a sunny yellow, with colorful scribbles and doodles.

Front Cover:

Across the top half of the front cover, the title says “Community of Magic Pens” in a font that looks handwritten in purple marker. Around the title, there are lavender and blue ink splotches to the upper left, a rainbow scribble to the upper right, and a few light blue stars and dots to the far right.

Four anthropomorphic pens are spaced across the bottom half of the front cover, standing happily in a line. They do not have legs, but they each have cartoonish stick arms and cartoonish faces. From left-to-right:

First, a copper-colored fineliner pen is smiling with a red cap and a moustache. The arms are down, and one is holding a cane for the visually impaired.

Second, a blue fine-nibbed pen or marker with light stripes is holding arms up to the face in happy surprise. Small black shirt buttons run down the front.

Third, a dark gray or black stylus with a couple of small button controls and a content face has arms to the sides, and is wearing a rainbow-colored headscarf.

Fourth, a gold fountain pen or dip pen is raising arms high and smiling. The pen wears a large gold beret, has glasses and a bowtie, and is adorned with wavy gold decorations and dots as if embellished or engraved.

A signature: “AJCreations” is scrawled in pink and purple to the lower right of the pens.

Across the bottom, reads: “An Atthis Arts Anthology.” A black scribble rests on the bottom left, near the spine, and a pink star with some dots is to the far right side.

Back Cover:

The teaser synopsis stretches across the top half of the back cover.

To the right side, closer to the spine, under the teaser, there is a cartoon red pencil with a red ponytail laying down with one arm raised. The pencil has prominent long eyelashes and is softly smiling.

Under the pencil, the authors’ names are listed.

To the bottom center of the back cover, in between the Atthis Arts logo and the barcode, there is a small jar of black ink labeled “Creative Ink” that is gently spilling onto the page.

Spine:

Stretched vertically down the spine from top to bottom is: “Edited by E.D.E. Bell” in a gold, rigid font, followed by a small pink ink blotch, then the title: “Community of Magic Pens” in black in the marker font, followed by a lavender silhouette of the Atthis Arts logo, which is a little hummingbird on a tree branch.

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Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove is an eclectic collection of short stories and flash fiction.

Whether there’s an incident at the front desk, something not quite right with the room, a bear stopping in for a beer, or a resolute robot revolt, lives change by the minute within the grounds, rooms, and corridors of the legendary Hotel Stormcove. Lovers meet, witches gather, friends connect, and those in need always find shelter.

See you at the reception desk?

Contributors: Marriah Allen Pina, Joshua Amodeo, Maria E. Andreu, Robert Bagnall, J.S. Bailey, Stewart C Baker, Bo Balder, Margery Bayne, E.D.E. Bell, Karen Black, Lazolia Buzuzi, Chelsea Cambeis, Kella Campbell, Mike Casto, Michael W. Cho, Robert Dawson, Jakob Drud, Rita Beth Ebert, Demi Elder, Jasre’ Ellis, C. Flynt, Mark Frost, Catrine Kyster Giery, Karen Giery, Joy Givens, Ryanne Glenn, Christine Hanolsy, Andrew K Hoe, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Kai Hudson, Laura Johnson, Tom Jolly, B.C. Kalis, Janna Layton, Rachel Leidenfrost, Chloe Lerit, T.J. Lockwood, M. Lopes da Silva, Indira Ronae Lorick, John Lowell, Marsalis, Ellen Meny, Drew Michaels, Tamzin Mitchell, Mike Morgan, George Nikolopoulos, Michael Noble, F E Norley, Ruth Olson, Robert Perez, Kenn Pitawanakwat, Irene Puntí, L.S. Reinholt & Minerva Cerridwen, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Holly Schofield, Elizabeth Shaffer, Preeti C. Sharma, Jannae’ Sifontes, and Dawn Vogel.

Podcast: editor E.D.E. Bell discusses Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove on Pondo’s Playground in 2019.

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As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object. Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart.

What objects do you think have stories to tell?

Contributors: Z. Ahmad, E.D.E. Bell, Kella Campbell, Steve Carr, John Darling, Robert Dawson, Evan Dicken, Geoff Dutton, Jasre’ Ellis, N.S. Evans, BethAnn Ferrero, C. Flynt, Avily Jerome, Laura Johnson, Tom Jolly, B.C. Kalis, Debra Krauss, Grace Keating, T.J. Lockwood, Donnie Martino, Alanna McFall, Holly Schofield, Terry Sanville, and Stephanie Vance.

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